California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 2 — Healing Arts, Chapter 13.5 — Licensed Educational Psychologists, Article 4 — Regulation, Section 4989.51

(a) A licensed educational psychologist shall retain a client’s health service records for a minimum of seven years from the date therapy is terminated. If the client is a minor, the client’s health service records shall be retained for a minimum of seven years from the date the client reaches 18 years of age. Health service records may be retained in either a written or an electronic format.

(b) This section shall apply only to the records of a client whose therapy is terminated on or after January 1, 2015.

Notes

Requires a licensed educational psychologist to retain an adult client’s health service records for at least seven years after therapy ends and a minor client’s records for at least seven years after the client reaches age 18, in written or electronic form. Applies only to records for therapy terminated on or after January 1, 2015.

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